[ May 13, 2024 ]
And the censorship goes on …
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube officials have been actively deleting popular posts from an ex-Muslim who speaks about the truths of Islam — often, critically.
Apparently, these criticisms, truth-based as they are — first person as they are — do not meet the strict standards of appropriateness set by the leftists who dominate social media.
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As Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch writes: “Here is still more about how the social media giants are steadily choking off all material that looks at Islam with a critical eye. Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism are all fair game, but Islam is off limits, as our moral superiors move to impose Sharia blasphemy laws upon the West.”
How true that is.
Brother Rachid (h/t Jihad Watch) explains, in his blog:
As a former Muslim hosting a live TV show for over a decade, I’ve come to rely on social media platforms to connect with my audience now more than ever before. My show, “DaringQuestions,” is watched via satellite TV (through Alhayat TV) by millions of viewers around the world (mainly in Arabic speaking communities). My show is popular among Muslims because it is highly controversial. I raise many bold questions about the Islamic faith and I expose the danger of some Islamic doctrine. I also present testimonies of ex-Muslims who have left Islam and allow them to share their experiences in order to empower others and encourage them to do the same. To engage further with audiences and the wider, global, Muslim community, these questions and testimonies are also posted on my two main websites, “BrotherRachid.com” and “IslamExplained.com,” as well as on social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube. However, Muslim governments impose restrictions and heavy censorship and my websites are often inaccessible in many Muslim countries due to material I present which uses critical thinking to address Islamic doctrines. As a result, social media platforms are an increasingly crucial way for me to reach out to the Muslim world and surpass the censorship that Muslim countries place on the material I present.
However, I face a dilemma that needs to be addressed and exposed to the whole world. The Arabic content for giant social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube is overseen predominantly by Muslims (since the majority of those who speak Arabic are Muslims). These companies have offices in the United Arab Emirates and give their Arabic speaking staff the authority to delete and block any material that does not fit their guidelines. However, this authority is abused when any channel or page that criticizes Islam or presents opposing views to Islam is blocked, deleted or removed. For example, my Facebook page (which has over 1.5 million likes) was once deleted, while the Facebook page of Alhayat – the channel that broadcasts my show – was also deleted without any explanation, causing the channel to lose all the money they had spent on advertising, among other damages. My YouTube channel (which has also garnered millions of views) was once removed for ‘breaking guidelines.’ Thank God, I appealed the removal and explained the details to those in charge in the US and have since been able to gain my channel back. My Facebook posts are removed on many occasions and I am frequently blocked from posting because a post allegedly “does not follow Facebook guidelines!” No further explanation is provided. Sometimes, even my own picture is reported and removed because it violates copyrights! Recently, I posted a cover of my book in French; the post was removed for breaking “Facebook guidelines” and yet nobody could explain to me how a book that is published legally and sold on Amazon can break Facebook guidelines.
I think Facebook and Twitter need to revise how Arabic content is handled – there is no balance here. Muslims criticize Christianity right and left and their Facebook pages and YouTube channels face no problems whatsoever, yet Christians, Atheists, and ex-Muslims as myself face huge challenges in criticizing Islam on social media in Arabic. Our pages are unfairly deleted, our posts are wrongfully removed, and our accounts are blocked and removed. We had thought that social media was about freedom of speech, but unfortunately it appears that Muslim censorship is prevalent even on social media. We are unable to express ourselves even on platforms like Facebook and YouTube.
N.B: My show and my posts never promote hatred or violence against Muslims; I always emphasize critiquing Islam as a doctrine but on loving Muslims as all other human beings.
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35 Comments
6 years ago
Zuckerberg’s willingness to act a a subservient Dhimmi to Islam is pretty typical of the left in general. For some reason, Islam, the most brutal, barbaric, and oppressive religion on the planet is routinely given a free pass, as Westerners promote the fiction that such things aren’t “real Islam”.
The Hadith, Sira, and Koran show otherwise, instructing Muslims to persecute and kill Christians and Jews, to force Islam on those who reject Allah, and to even attack other Muslims at times.
While it is always hoped that Zuckerberg and those like him will come to their senses, recognizing the vileness of Islam for what it is, the opposite is far more likely. Leftists are promoting Sharia and oppression, while pretending that Islam is a peaceful and respectable religion (it is neither).
Time to wake up, the Dhimmis of the West, before this religious/political system shows it’s true nature, affecting you and those you care about.
6 years ago
Reply to
Lee Hicks
That “some reason” is that super wealthy moslems have invested in or outright own media throughout the world, all types of media, including school books, ie Pearson. It has been a smart move as to where to put all that oil money. This is jihad of communication, once called Jihad of the Pen.
6 years ago
Reply to
Lee Hicks
it is so easy and fashionable to be a “salon socialist” when you have money, but being a J.I.N.O. (Jewish in name only) dhimmi is pathetic. Zuckerberg is perhaps a “genius” as far as inventing this FB waste of time is concerned but at the same he’s an idiot because if sharia law is imposed the muzzies would consider him a second or third class citizen unless he converts to the islam like Trudeau did.
Oh well, he’s got enough money to pay the tax so that they tolerate him…(if they don’t kill him and confiscate his money first.)
6 years ago
Reply to
Lee Hicks
islam would appeal to insignificant runts who by themselves are contemptible and ridiculous. So, to compensate for their mental and physical inferiority, when they can, they become manipulative control freaks with delusions of grandeur. mutgonad, police beat upon him, all day zucker are a couple of trivial creatures who were good snake oil salesmen to a willingly duped clientele.
6 years ago
why is this happening ? Instead of complaining about it , find reason why and how to counter it.
Muslims are united in their goal of occupation , domination , terrorising and subjugation and practice Islamic Art Of Occupation & Ethnic Cleansing Without Killing http://bit.ly/2y1iju8
while infidels are clueless and disunited. Unite,fund, support, inform, Organise and resist . Or you’ll end up in a Islamic hellhole.
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
“Unite,fund, support, inform, Organise and resist”
This IS what WE are doing. Unfortunately the college professors and the US Media is totally working against us. They have a bigger audience then us.
6 years ago
George Orwell: Yes. That’s what I’m talking about. Groupspeek.
6 years ago
Reply to
NotTheMama
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
~ George Orwell
When free men fear to speak, they cease to be free.
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“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”
~ George Orwell, 1984
6 years ago
If anyone hasn’t worked it out yet social media and the main stream media are at WAR with the truth and anyone who dares tell it.
One of my favourite sayings is ‘the truth is like a lion let it free and it will take care of itself’
https://youtu.be/dbm-P7jaa_c
6 years ago
Reply to
Tom Validakis
Most of the reason why I simply cannot watch nature programming any longer is because humanity, merely by existing, is depicted as the scourge of planet earth in these programs.
While I condemn poaching, greed, etc, I abhor the enviro-Marxist position even more.
When “environmentalists” object to PHOTO safaris (i.e. taking pictures of animals) — as the very PRESENCE of humans disrupts the environment — there is something very, very wrong. And make no mistake, that is the position of the enviro-Marxists.
In closing, I will say what I’ve said many times before: Leftism is a mental disorder. A deadly-dangerous mental disorder.
6 years ago
Yeah, it’s a sad day when the World’s leading terrorist group, the islamists, are unable to be criticized because it’s against the law to do so. Absolutely Pitiful. This world of people is damaged beyond repair.
6 years ago
Reply to
DancerTiffy
Just a little truth makes their needle jump (as the needle on a scale).
6 years ago
Reply to
DancerTiffy
“To find out who rules over you, find out who you cannot criticize.”
~ Voltaire
6 years ago
Reply to
DancerTiffy
When little twitter loses his 50 some billion to ya know equal things out, they will regret it. Que sera, sera/
6 years ago
How do you best love a Muslim? From a safe distance? With adequate security in place? Really hard to figure it out sometimes. Happy new year.
6 years ago
There is such a thing as competition. It is time for those believing in freedom of speech to stop patronizing face book and the like, there are alternatives, if not, make some. The pissing and moaning from under the yoke of censorship is not accomplishing anything.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
You are 100% wrong if I had invented Facebook it wouldn’t have accomplished anything the media would not have spruiked it and they would not have made a Hollywood blockbuster psyop movie about it.
The reality is the masses use Facebook and censorship on this platform and the type of censorship is real-time and merciless. Yet young teenagers are being mass bullied on Facebook and nothing is done usually resulting in suicide. Facebook is like nothing to see here.
#ITSALLBYDESIGN
6 years ago
Reply to
Tom Validakis
“If” is a useless statement, the reality of the situation is what counts. People still haven’t learned that they cannot control events, but they can control their reactions to them. Time to grow up kiddies.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
What is requires is for the “rebels without a clue” to grasp the concept that they do not have to pound there faces on a book that is using and abusing them, all the while giving the illusion that it and they are “cool” when the facts are their brain is frozen. There are alternatives, if there is a problem with one, move on, which some people seem to have a hard time doing.
6 years ago
it’s a shame I’m not a member of Fakebook, Twinkie, or You-tu-be CONTROLLED. Otherwise I would be pissed. What are you doing not to be pissed?
6 years ago
Facebook just banned me because I asked if Channel 4 had ran out of candidates when they chose a hijab-wearing presenter. Free speech, my ass! I think it is high time we de-facebooked ourselves. Only when they lose 50% of their subscribers and have a subsequent loss of advertising revenue they will understand how wrong their ways are. And this comes one day after the BBC said that research revealed that the UK is the no. 1 country where people access jihadist material online (youtube etc.) So the UK is a hotbed of islamic would-be terrorists but sure… Christians are the problem!
6 years ago
Reply to
Maria Barnet
“The interests of Muslims and the interests of the Socialists coincide in the war against the
Crusaders.” [Western civilization]
~ Osama bin Laden, February 12th, 2003, Al Jazeera Television
Still the #1 most poignant quote of the 21st century to this day.
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Leftist protected classes, in descending order:
Islamic supremacists
Black Marxists
Other minority Marxists
LGBTQ Marxists
Female Marxists
Male Marxists
Gaia (animals, rocks, trees etc)
Every single other thing in the world
Christians
Jews
6 years ago
muslim is the new holocaust survivor
6 years ago
Reply to
Josef Baal-Moloch Haddad
It is noteworthy that both Ba’al (Baal) and Moloch were the top two demon gods of middle-eastern antiquity.
Both demanding infant and child sacrifice in their worship, they have gone by many names since.
6 years ago
“The very tactics of those totalitarian movements — intimidation, demonization, and disregard of all rules in favor of politically-defined results — have become the hallmarks of political correctness today.”
~ Thomas Sowell
Goodbye To The First Amendment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozfaLzjjZyE
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“The interests of Muslims and the interests of the Socialists coincide in the war against the
Crusaders.” [Western civilization]
~ Osama bin Laden, February 12th, 2003, Al Jazeera Television
6 years ago
SPREAD this far and wide.
6 years ago
I knew it was just a matter of time before they’d go after brother rachid. when they can’t refute you and your message is too powerful they shut you down.
